In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.

Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.

Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent.

To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

The global economy is becoming a place where women are more successful than men, and these economic changes are starting to rapidly affect our culture - what our romantic comedies look like, what our marriages look like, what our dating lives look like, and our new set of superheroes.

We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.

If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.